Poems of the Week

Faded Image

by Iris Herriot

“Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico”
The Guardian

While Mexico prepares to show an anti-fascist mural,
We self-administer a kind of civic epidural:
Why march? Why join? The news is so fatiguing we’re near fainting;
So let’s instead admire this monumental, distant painting.